Animals, sentence 4
In a hard question the best answer gives reasons, weighs the other side and is fair to everyone, people and animals alike.
Who acts: best answer · What happens: give, weigh, be · To what, where: reasons, hard question, other side
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best answer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 question | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 question | det |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 question | amod |
| 4 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gives | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 answer | det |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 answer | amod |
| 7 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gives | nsubj |
| 8 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gives | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 weighs | punct |
| 11 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gives | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 side | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 side | amod |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 weighs | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fair | cc |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 fair | cop |
| 17 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gives | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 everyone | case |
| 19 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 fair | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 people | punct |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 everyone | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 animals | cc |
| 23 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 people | conj |
| 24 | alike | alike | ADV | _ | 21 people | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | the best answer | reasons | a hard question | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | |||
| 2 | weigh | present | the best answer not said here | the other side | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme side=Value | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the best answer not said here | to everyone; fair property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:religion-ethics:046-animals.lesson:4.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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